Burial for 9-month-old found dead in crib scheduled for Thursday

Updated 9:24 pm, Wednesday, October 9, 2013

SAN ANTONIO — The 9-month-old boy found dead in his crib on the Northeast Side on Sunday night will be buried Thursday in Victoria.

Services for Michael Rene Sanchez Jr. are scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. Thursday at Our Lady of Sorrows Church at 208 W. River St. Burial will follow, at 2 p.m. at Memorial Park Cemetery, 2201 N. Main Street.

Visitation and rosary services took place in Victoria Wednesday.

The family, speaking through Artero Memorial Chapels, has asked media not to attend the services. The family also declined an interview request Wednesday.

According to a police report, officers went to a home in the 5000 block of Casa Verde Sunday night when someone called to report a drowning after finding Michael — stiff and cold — tightly wrapped in wet blankets, lying in his crib.

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Child Protective Services had investigated the family previously for reports of neglectful supervision, but the agency closed the case in March after it was determined there was no risk in returning the children to the mother's supervision.

The baby's father, identified in an obituary that ran in the Victoria Advocate as Michael Rene Sanchez Sr., was not implicated in the CPS investigation. Records tie the senior Sanchez to a home in Victoria. His links to the new investigation are unclear.

As of Wednesday night, no arrests had been made.

A cause of death had not been determined Wednesday either. It could take up to eight weeks for the medical examiner to make a ruling.

The obituary said the baby was born to Sanchez Sr. and Mickey Wylie Bess in San Antonio last December. They and two brothers were listed as survivors of the child.